Planar and non-planar nonlinear dynamics of suspended cables under random in-plane loading. I: Single internal resonance (Q1369511)

The authors study the nonlinear interaction of the in-plane and out-of-plane motions of a suspended cable in the neighbourhood of 2:1 internal resonance under random loading. The random loading acts externally on the in-plane mode, while the out-of-plane mode is nonlinearly coupled with the in-plane mode. Any non-trivial motion of the out-of-plane mode is mainly due to this nonlinear coupling, which becomes significant in the neighbourhood of internal resonance. The response statistics are estimated by employing the Fokker-Planck equation together with Gaussian and non-Gaussian closures. The authors use the Monte Carlo simulation for numerical verification. Away from the internal resonance condition, the response is governed by the in-plane motion, and the non-Gaussian closure solution is found to be in good agreement with numerical simulation results. The stochastic bifurcation of the out-of-plane mode is predicted by Gaussian and non-Gaussian closures, and by Monte Carlo simulation.